A photograph of the 1941 Springfield College baseball team. The team was led by Head coach Harold DeGroat, standing in the last row all the way on the left wearing all black, and team Captains, Fred Watson and Bill Gibney. Fred Watson is the second row, 5th person from the left in the middle sitting next to Bill Gibney, who is on his right. The team finished the season with an overall record of 10 wins and 6 losses, in DeGoat's 15th season as Head coach of the Springfield College baseball team. DeGoat went on to coach for 1 more season before ending his 16 season coaching career at Springfield, with a career record of 139 wins, 118 losses, and 0 ties, a winning percentage of .541.
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